In the space of modern enterprise technology, cloud computing has become a key player. Companies work to achieve their cloud computing goals with providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud and Google Cloud Platform. These huge technology companies are constantly updating their products, sometimes faster than their customers can handle. Baking Clouds […]
AWSome Day Online Conference | Get Yourself Trained on AWS!
Amazon Web Services for AWSome Day Online Conference, a free, online training event that will provide you a step-by-step introduction to the core AWS services for compute, storage, database and networking. AWS technical expert will explain key features and use cases, share best practices, walk through technical demos, and be available to answer your technical […]
New .BOT gTLD from Amazon
BOT, a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) from Amazon. Customers can use .BOT domains to provide an identity and portal for their bots. Fitness bots, slack bots, e-commerce bots, and more can all benefit from an easy-to-access .BOT domain. The phrase “bot” was the 4th most registered domain keyword within the .COM TLD in 2016 […]
Onboarding to VMware Cloud on AWS
Joining the VMware Cloud on AWS service is not like deploying vCenter or other VMware products. Because VMware Cloud on AWS is a managed service operated by VMware, you need on onboard to the service and create what we call an Organization which is the key tenant construct within VMware Cloud on AWS. In the […]
AWS AppSync – Production-Ready with Six New Features
If you build (or want to build) data-driven web and mobile apps and need real-time updates and the ability to work offline, you should take a look at AWS AppSync. Announced in preview form at AWS re:Invent 2017 and described in depth here, AWS AppSync is designed for use in iOS, Android, JavaScript, and React […]
AWS Online Tech Talks – April & Early May 2018
Note – All sessions are free and in Pacific Time. April & early May — 2018 Schedule Compute April 30, 2018 | 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM PT – Best Practices for Running Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with Amazon EMR (300) – Learn about the best practices for scaling big data workloads as well as […]
AWS Certificate Manager Launches Private Certificate Authority
Today AWS is launching a new feature for AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), Private Certificate Authority (CA). This new service allows ACM to act as a private subordinate CA. Previously, if a customer wanted to use private certificates, they needed specialized infrastructure and security expertise that could be expensive to maintain and operate. ACM Private CA […]
Amazon ECS Service Discovery
Amazon ECS now includes integrated service discovery. This makes it possible for an ECS service to automatically register itself with a predictable and friendly DNS name in Amazon Route 53. As your services scale up or down in response to load or container health, the Route 53 hosted zone is kept up to date, allowing […]
New – Amazon DynamoDB Continuous Backups and Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)
The Amazon DynamoDB team is back with another useful feature hot on the heels of encryption at rest. At AWS re:Invent 2017 we launched global tables and on-demand backup and restore of your DynamoDB tables and today we’re launching continuous backups with point-in-time recovery (PITR). You can enable continuous backups with a single click in […]
EFS File Sync – Faster File Transfer To Amazon EFS File Systems
If you need to move a large collection of files from an on-premises or in-cloud file system to Amazon Elastic File System, this tool is for you. Simple, single-threaded command line tools such as cp and rsync predate the cloud and cannot deliver the throughput required to move massive amounts of data from place to […]